[3] Kim became the vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party in September 1989.
[2] Kim's constituency since the 2019 North Korean parliamentary election is the 118th Electoral District (Jangsang).
[8] Fyodor Tertitskiy of NK News characterizes Kim as "just another North Korean bureaucrat" and of less interest than Ryu Mi-yong, the head of the other minor party, Chondoist Chongu Party.
[9] In August 2004, he met with Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, although the meeting was strictly supervised.
[10] In 2012, Kim Yong-dae met with the South Korean Unified Progressive Party representatives and signed a joint-statement condemning Japan's activities in the Liancourt Rocks dispute.